“What were I best to say?”

Shakespeare’s King Richard III draws from Thomas More’s The History of King Richard III in its characterization of Queen Elizabeth and in its concern with finding the proper response to malice. Whereas other histories present Elizabeth as foolish and inconstant, More’s stresses her intelligence and deliberation. Shakespeare’s Elizabeth too possesses such traits. She, unlike Lady Anne, recognizes that to return Richard’s curses is to curse oneself. Instead, she protects herself and her daughter, and helps to end England’s curse of civil war, by responding to Richard’s malice with equivocation, specifically by practicing mental reservation

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• MacBeth and the Background of Jesuitical Equivocation

  Open Access•Frank L Huntley•PMLA/Publications of the Modern…•1964

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